I am finally back in the blogging world for a bit, and wanted to put up a few links I've been collecting. I found out on the SCBWI disc...

I always thought it was a little awful of me to get such a chuckle out of the term 'kernel of hope' or 'sense of hope' in th...

YA author Betsy James ' story of how she came to write The Seeker Chronicles , the three volume novel of Downslope, Upslope and the Hi...

It was just a trip to the Laundromat. It shouldn't have almost gotten her killed. When 16-year-old Kerry goes to the laundry to pick up ...

Leslie's Journal is a novel which, at first glance, seems to be the story of a teen who is on top of her game. By its cover it is an AL...

It's a rare person in the remote town of Hunter's Gap who knows anything about journalism. M. Taylor Armstrong-Brown isn't from ...

Another historical fiction coming-of-age novel is Norah Perez's One Special Year , which tells the tale of Jen McAllister in the first y...

Author Ann Rinaldi is practically a household name in terms of children's and young adult historical fiction. Rinaldi's research an...

There's a moment during every momentous occasion in life where you ask yourself, "Should I still be doing this?" Usually it...

Ha pp y Chinese Pyrot echni cs Day ! Edit Hell continues, which is a bad thing, since not a lot of work is going to get done today, and the...

Though this novel by Vivian Vande Velde is now out of print, The Changeling Prince can be found in the library in paperback version, and i...

YA novels about different countries often focus on the exoticized features of their culture, but playwright and first-time YA novelist Alla...

Thanks to Seren for giving me a heads up about Salon's Broadsheet kudos to New Moon Magazine for Girls. I've blogged about these ...

My camping out at the library paid off in me being one of the first to read Specials , the last of the Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld. ...

So, the ALA Conference is going on now in New Orleans, and may I just say a gentle 'God bless you and your air conditioners too' t...

Sometimes it just doesn't take much to rock the boat. Quiet Anna and her fearless buddy, Zoe, have been best friends since they were rea...

The Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knight is a book of short fairytales from the European tradition that include a fair number of more m...

Probably the funniest thing about Vivian Vande Velde's quick-paced novel, Dragon's Bait is the idea that dragons aren't really...

I have to admit to being a sucker, apparently, for books about humans stumbling across the world of Faerie, and Faerie being nothing like wh...

Young Warriors , the thoughtful and creative anthology edited by Josepha Sherman (I look forward to reading one of her books) and Tamora Pie...